Organosoluble tetravalent actinide di- and trifluorides

Soluble molecular actinide( iv ) fluorides can be prepared in high yield via redox or metathesis reactions of silver fluorides with actinide compounds containing ancillary iodide or fluorinated thiolate ligands. Two compounds, (py) 4 UF 2 I 2 ·2py and (py) 7 Th 2 F 5 (SC 6 F 5 ) 3 ·2py were isolated and characterized by conventional methods, powder and low temperature single crystal X-ray diffraction. Soluble molecular actinide( iv ) fluorides can be prepared in high yield via redox or metathesis reactions of silver fluorides with actinide compounds containing ancillary iodide or fluorinated thiolate ligands.